USS Northampton (CA-26)

USS Northampton (CA-26) was a US Navy cruiser that was commissioned on 17 May 1930. Built at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, the Northampton was sent to the Pacific in 1932. She was out of port with USS Enterprise at the time of the Attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, and she protected the Enterprise at the Battle of Midway in June 1942. The ship later took part in the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, fighting at the Battle of Santa Cruz before being struck by two torpedoes at the Battle of Tassafaronga on 1 December 1942. She began to sink stern-first, but the loss of life was surprisingly light, and the survivors were picked up within an hour by US destroyers.